Other Any 'vapers' out there?

Nearly 2 months later and a major draw back to packing in vaping has been identified, I now have to go into shops when out with the wife, gone the days of propping up a wall and saying 'I'll hang here and have a toot whilst you shop'

 

What you're thinking of is drag activation. Its a thing for pod systems, think juul etc, not bigger devices

 

Yeah, the draw activation thing is really only present on disposables or smaller pod systems. It’s not very reliable, and it would be difficult to implement on larger devices/tanks. What makes it doubly hard these days is that a lot of tanks have adjustable airflow rings; if I open the airflow on my Smok TFV-Mini all the way then there’s basically no resistance whatsoever.

TBH, I’d be worried about cleaning a longer drip tip. It’s going to get gunked up with condensed liquid, and as you draw on it all that condensed gunk is going to get sucked into your lungs… Blech… My drip tip is about 10mm from the coil, and it’s bad enough when that gets covered in goo…

I remember pipe vapes from a long time back, I always wanted one . These days though the devices have largely moved on past that, pretty much everything is sub-ohm. Even some pod systems; I had a Smok Nord, I think it was the Nord 2, vape a while back, and even that’s sub-ohm.

Sounds like you need to go direct-to-lung instead of mouth-to-lung, @The_Crapman

 

Oh yeah, definitely don’t do that .

A totally left-field alternative here is making your own mod with something like an Evolv DNA board,l and rigging up an externally-wired fire button… This is bit-tech after all , and I seem to remember a certain Brummie forum denizen winning modding contests and going on to present what was at the time a quite successful YouTube channel…

In all seriousness, that’s a road I very nearly went down many years ago, back when high-wattage and temperature-controlled devices were still quite expensive. Simple extruded aluminium project box, a nice chromed “fire” button, built-in LiPo cell, and a 510 connector. I even bought all the bits I needed… and promptly never got around to it! These days I can’t be arsed with all that. I have a decent high-wattage mod that didn’t cost the earth (Smok R-Kiss 2), I have two sets of 18650 cells and an external charger, my tank with its pre-made coils is damn good, and I really do want to pack this in within the next couple of years.

 

[brushes hands] Well, I think my work here is done

If it’s any consolation, right now I’m supposed to be designing some pretty gnarly data models that I said I’d nail by the end of the day. What I’m actually doing right now is mucking about on the forum, and shortly I’ll be off looking at little round watch-like LCD displays and planning out a little hardware project* I’ve been thinking about…

*Ironically, said project is intended to help with reducing distractions . I’m a big fan of “things that are meant for only one job and do that job well”; now I have a capable 3D printer, I hit upon the idea of a dedicated Pomodoro timer using a small display and an MCU. But of course, scope creep is a real thing, so now I’m also looking at integrating haptic feedback motors, haptic feedback controllers, and fancy input methods…

 

2.5+months later, am I now an ex-vaper, do I feel confident in myself to dump the drawer full of tanks, cotton, wire, odd atties, mods and close to 1 litre of 72mg/ml nic at the tip?

 

I sure as **** wouldn’t be that confident .

Though I wouldn’t have kept it around in the first place… I would have had to get rid of it all when I packed it in, otherwise it would have been almost impossible to resist the temptation to pick it back up!

 

Same, I ain't that daft fella , a butt load of batteries ( all of them) went to the tip as soon as I ran out of regular atties, only odd ball atties and build it your self kits are left and my laziness exceeds my desire to vape, although I've just remembered a drawer with several bottles of TJ juice flavours and 5 bottles of my favourite premium short fill, which may have tipped the scale if they were in view.

I think the only hurdle left for me is what happen when I go out for M-cycles rides, I always stopped off somewhere scenic and had a toot, although if I can mange the 2 hours commute each way without vaping it shouldn't be an issue

 

Oooh, every since I started I thought about a pipe

Completely forgot about it. What's the draw like down a pipe compared to a regular mod?

 

I'd missed this. Sound advice.

I've still got a pack of golden Virginia from 10+ years ago. Every few years I give it a good sniff then put it away

Just knowing it was there meant I never thought about there not being any.

 

Cheers bud, may just give one a go for the hell of it and so I can look wiser than I am.